Re: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool?

2003-07-03 Thread Jack Crone
On 6/30/2003 at 7:53 PM isox wrote: >There is a good paper written by Peter Gutmann titled "Secure Deletion of >Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory". It is nearly a decade old, >but it contains some very good information in it. It is available at >http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pub

Re: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool?

2003-07-03 Thread Jack Crone
On 6/30/2003 at 8:46 PM Benjamin A. Okopnik wrote: >Well, I can't claim that I've actually seen a _documented_ recovery as >such, or that I have *absolute* proof, but - having worked for >$LARGE_AEROSPACE_COMPANY where this was a concern, I'm aware of two >techniques that were supposedly in actual

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2003-07-02 Thread Benjamin A. Okopnik
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:06:52PM -0700, Jack Crone wrote: > > If anyone on the list is aware of an actual, documented recovery I > would really like to know about it. Demonstrations which show how to > retrieve a few bits don't count. Neither do the claims of some data > recovery companies who,

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2003-07-02 Thread isox
There is a good paper written by Peter Gutmann titled "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory". It is nearly a decade old, but it contains some very good information in it. It is available at http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html

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2003-06-30 Thread Robinson, Sonja
sage- From: Troy Larson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 3:42 PM To: Robinson, Sonja; 'NC Agent'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? Sonja, I would be very interested (actually, surpris

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2003-06-30 Thread Jack Crone
About fifteen years ago I was associated with a highly classified military program. We had a very real need to know whether overwritten data could be recovered and I believe we learned all that was known at the time. We learned that it was theoretically possible to recover data, but the theory had

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2003-06-30 Thread Troy Larson
7;; 'NC Agent'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective > Windows hard -disk search tool? > > > According to information I received at an HTCIA meeting about > 3 months ago, as well as some reading that I have done, 31 > tim

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2003-06-30 Thread Bob Walker
--- From: Robinson, Sonja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 9:01 AM To: 'NC Agent'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? >>O/S could be Fat32. We didn't have that info. True.

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2003-06-30 Thread Troy Larson
'NC Agent'; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective > Windows hard -disk search tool? > > > Greetings All, > > I really have to jump in in the middle of this one(threads > included, for contextual refere

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2003-06-27 Thread Robinson, Sonja
ursday, June 26, 2003 3:32 PM To: Robinson, Sonja; 'NC Agent'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? Sonja, I respectfully take issue with only one statement: "A wipe to DoD specs (7 or more passes - 31 re

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2003-06-27 Thread Troy Larson
ROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 9:01 AM To: 'NC Agent'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? >>O/S could be Fat32. We didn't have that info. True. Normal formats still retain data in parts of

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2003-06-26 Thread Robinson, Sonja
l Message- From: Robinson, Sonja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:50 To: 'Wilcox, Stephen'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? If you reformatted, don't waste your mo

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2003-06-26 Thread Clayton Hoskinson
: 'Clayton Hoskinson'; 'Robinson, Sonja'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? If the drive was formatted format c:/u the data is gone. --

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2003-06-26 Thread George
hard -disk search tool? -Original Message- From: Robinson, Sonja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:50 To: 'Wilcox, Stephen'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? If you

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2003-06-25 Thread Clayton Hoskinson
-Original Message- From: Robinson, Sonja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:50 To: 'Wilcox, Stephen'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? If you reformatted, don'

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2003-06-24 Thread dave klimen
amework of high expectation." Jack Kinder -Original Message- From: Robinson, Sonja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 13:14 To: 'dave klimen'; 'Gene LeDuc'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effecti

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2003-06-24 Thread Robinson, Sonja
nja Robinson, CISA Network Security Analyst HIP Health Plans Office: 212-806-4125 Pager: 8884238615 -Original Message----- From: dave klimen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 6:43 PM To: Robinson, Sonja; 'Wilcox, Stephen'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Gene LeDuc

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2003-06-23 Thread Robinson, Sonja
EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Gene LeDuc' Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? Sonja, That is so far from correct. With R-Studio $79 (http://www.r-tt.com/RStudio.shtml ), you can repartition, reformat (using diff file systems) and still recover.

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2003-06-23 Thread dave klimen
- From: Robinson, Sonja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:50 To: 'Wilcox, Stephen'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? If you reformatted, don't waste your money on any

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2003-06-23 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
Raoul, On 2003-06-19 Raoul Armfield wrote: >> From: Gene LeDuc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 6:20 PM >> >> If all you want to do is recover the info, you can attach the hard >> drive to a linux box and mount the NTFS partition. From that point >> you can browse the

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2003-06-23 Thread Gene LeDuc
] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 1:20 PM To: 'Gene LeDuc' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? Since this is what I do for a living, security incident response handling and computer forensic investigations, I am

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2003-06-21 Thread dave
OTECTED] Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? Since all you did was copy/paste from the web site, I think it's fair to ask what your experience with this product has been. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mail

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2003-06-21 Thread Gene LeDuc
ar Wiechers'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? http://www.r-tt.com/RStudio.shtml Host OS: Win9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP. Remote data recovery over network. Data can be recovered on network computers runni

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2003-06-21 Thread Gene LeDuc
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? :-Original Message- :From: Gene LeDuc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 6:20 PM :To: 'Wilcox, Stephen' :Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Subject: RE

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2003-06-21 Thread Robinson, Sonja
hen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 12:02 PM To: Ansgar Wiechers; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? Do to the lack of knowledge and impatience I formatted the drive. I now have looked at a couple re

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2003-06-20 Thread Jim
Jim -Original Message- From: Ansgar Wiechers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 7:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? On 2003-06-18 Gene LeDuc wrote: >> It funny that

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2003-06-20 Thread dave
2003 12:02 To: Ansgar Wiechers; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? Do to the lack of knowledge and impatience I formatted the drive. I now have looked at a couple recovery tools out there but they run around $75.. ouch. I

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2003-06-20 Thread Raoul Armfield
:-Original Message- :From: Gene LeDuc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 6:20 PM :To: 'Wilcox, Stephen' :Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective :Windows hard -disk search tool? : : :If all you want to do is r

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2003-06-19 Thread Wilcox, Stephen
- From: Ansgar Wiechers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 6:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? On 2003-06-18 Gene LeDuc wrote: >> It funny that this discussion started in the last fe

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2003-06-19 Thread Robinson, Sonja
-4125 Pager: 8884238615 -Original Message- From: Wilcox, Stephen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? Hello It funny that this discussion st

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2003-06-19 Thread David Olivier
Gene LeDuc; 'Wilcox, Stephen' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? In a pinch you can use something like Knoppix, which will boot Linux from a CD, assuming your bios is configured to allow for CD boot. This w

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2003-06-19 Thread Robinson, Sonja
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? Hello It funny that this discussion started in the last few days.. As Murphy would have it, last night while installing a new nic card. Something happened to the boot.ini file and c

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2003-06-19 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2003-06-18 Gene LeDuc wrote: >> It funny that this discussion started in the last few days.. As >> Murphy would have it, last night while installing a new nic card. >> Something happened to the boot.ini file and corrupted it. I don't >> know how or why except the possibility of it writing to th

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2003-06-19 Thread Dana Epp
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 3:19 PM Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? > If all you want to do is recover the info, you can attach the hard drive to > a linux box and mount the N

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2003-06-18 Thread Gene LeDuc
EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? Hello It funny that this discussion started in the last few days.. As Murphy would have it, last night while installing a new nic card. Something happened to the boot.ini file and corrupted

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2003-06-18 Thread exon
ient. > > Did you ever notice how all of your e-mail is 1K even if it is blank, yes MS > dumps info in there too but it is generally invisible unless you do > analysis. It's amazing what you can find.... > > > > > Sonja Robinson, CISA > Network Security Analyst > HIP H

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2003-06-18 Thread Levasseur, Brian
st HIP Health Plans Office: 212-806-4125 Pager: 8884238615 -Original Message----- From: marcus peddle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 8:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard-disk search

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2003-06-18 Thread Wilcox, Stephen
ns Office: 212-806-4125 Pager: 8884238615 -Original Message----- From: marcus peddle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 8:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard-disk search tool? Hello,

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2003-06-18 Thread Robinson, Sonja
238615 -Original Message- From: marcus peddle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 8:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard-disk search tool? Hello, I have a question/request: A few wee

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2003-06-17 Thread Robinson, Sonja
TED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard-disk search tool? Hello, I have a question/request: A few weeks back, a friend of mine in law enforcement demo'ed a tool he had on is computer that searched his entire hard drive and built an evid

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2003-06-17 Thread Rodney Green
: Monday, June 16, 2003 8:12 PM Subject: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard-disk search tool? > Hello, > > I have a question/request: > > A few weeks back, a friend of mine in law enforcement > demo'ed a tool he had on is computer that searched his

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2003-06-17 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello marcus, Monday, June 16, 2003, 6:12:29 PM, you wrote: mp> -A tool (peferably freeware) that I can use to acquire mp> and search my hard drive for mp> images/history/general/etc information that I have mp> "deleted". While not a direct answer to your question, it makes for some good readin

Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard-disk search tool?

2003-06-17 Thread marcus peddle
Hello, I have a question/request: A few weeks back, a friend of mine in law enforcement demo'ed a tool he had on is computer that searched his entire hard drive and built an evidence file (he called it acquiring the drive). He then used a propritarty tool to search the file the tool built for